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- Swaziland Princess Whipped
Mere difference in culture or mosogynist backward African tradition?
The king of Swaziland’s daughter was whipped by a palace official at a party of teenage virgins ahead of a festival where over 50,000 maidens will vie to become her father’s 13th wife, media said on Sunday.
Princess Sikhanyiso, 17, told the Times of Swaziland a palace official [...]
- You deserve your money back
The fact that these poor bastards have paid, through “Ads by Google,” to be featured on our site, gives me a good long chuckle. (“Hailed in the press as ‘the best neo-Anti-Bush site!’” Congrats, bozos.)
- Crappy BBC Commentary: Part, like, 38
Another one for these guys: the pompous Anglo arrogance of the BBC’s latest “From Our Own Correspondent” article (by Justin Webb) says volumes about how much the British Broadcasting Corporation doesn’t understand anything about anything.
A few years ago, one of President Bush’s neighbours gave me a tour of the outskirts of the presidential ranch. [...]
- Spineless as a Jellyfish
The Economist has some truly vitriolic smack down up regarding Europe’s reaction to the Andijan massacre in Uzbekistan:
If so, the European Union has risen to the occasion as grandly as it did over Bosnia, Iraq and on so many other occasions: with a display of spinelessness worthy of a sea full of jellyfish. First, in [...]
- Democracy Meltdown: How Hitler Got Elected
Ever wonder how democracies truly fail? When do elections go bad? Today, an example that many of you are familiar with…
In 1930, economically depressed Germany was whalloped by the Great Depression. The Social Democrats and other traditional political parties of the centre and right had no answer to the nation’s woes, and [...]
- Pig Sacrifices in Taiwan
The two stories on pig sacrifices in Taipei over at MutantFrog are just amazing. Make sure you check out Roy’s exclusive photos at flickr as well!! Here’s just one picture, reproduced without permission.
- Getting Moral Clarity Right
Manfred Nowak, a UN human rights official has urged the British government not to go ahead with plans to deport foreign Islamist radicals. Fortunately, there are some sane heads in the British government and the minister has told the UN to piss off that their focus is skewed..
“The human rights of those people who [...]
- Mugabe’s Dirty Secret
Robert Mugabe is the worst of the worst. He has revoked property rights on farms and conducted massive electoral fraud. He starves his people—the so-called “breadbasket of Africa” is now a basket case. He has demolished ghettos and pushed the urban poor into the rural countryside, fearing that they will create a [...]
- Testing Your Cartographic Mettle
Those of you who love geography as much as I do may enjoy this free online program that allows you to drag and drop the countries, capitals, rivers, and mountains of the world on to maps. Think you know maps? Then where’s the Sierra Madre de Sur in Mexico? What’s the capital [...]
